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There's plenty of credit to go around .There's no need to be stingy with credit. The player, the coaches and executives all play a part in good and bad things. Pretty simple stuff actually. Hardly controversial.

Vaughn actually has had several very hot streaks surrounded by equally very cold streaks. But more to the point it would happen more maybe if you were able to just sign non tendered guys. Schwarber was non tendered by the Cubs and he hit a massive amount of bombs since. Sox don't even have the resources to sign anyone for over $5M. They do hit on pitching. Fedde was a good signing. Rodon was a great $3M signing until he ran out of gas. Perez so far has been great. Crochet went from a relief pitcher recovering from injury to elite starting pitcher when almost no one, including me , thought he could stay healthy enough or pitch enough innings to achieve what he did. Crochet put in the off season work. They monitored him liked what they saw ,changed their plan for him and according to Bannister, Getz gave the thumbs up for Crochet to start. After that they worked on a few changes to his 2 seamer, introduced the cutter as opposed to his sweeper. Crochet kept pushing through every barrier. There's hope for Shane Smith and Vasil also.

His salary is MLB guaranteed no matter where he plays this year but keeping him batting cleanup is just overkill with coddling players. It's no great shame to being sent down . You need to be held accountable for your lack of production. I know they hate bringing up players who aren't already on the 40 but Drury might be coming back in a couple of weeks and Rojas too. Benintendi could be back in a few days. There's going to be plenty of guys who can play 1st base .

You do everyone in the Sox organization a great disservice if you are trying to say Crochet alone is responsible for his success. I'd like to recommend all people interested in the process of developing Crochet in the off season leading up to his breakout as a starting pitcher in 2024 go here I'd recommend listening to the whole thing but they don't get into talking about Crochet until the podcast is half over. Just listening to Bannister talk about elite training year round for pitchers, Trajeckt Machines, Tommy John surgery etc. is a must for anyone who wants to really know how developing Crochet was a true team effort. There is also so much more out there from Crochet too crediting the people in the organization . Might be an interview with Crochet too somewhere in the Baseball Isn't Boring Podcast episodes. I think anyone interested in being fair has to acknowledge the Sox had a strong role in getting Crochet to where he is right now.

None of those other guys had almost a 5 fWAR as recently as 2023. However that was the only season he played more than 100 games. He does however still run like the wind and field his position very well. IF he starts hitting the WAR starts piling up. The problem with him now is trying to adjust to the fact they aren't going to throw him a lot of strikes so he's laying off more pitches and thus getting more walks than he ever has . The problem that goes along with that is the timing where he's not swinging because he's looking at it a micro second longer is also causing him to be late on his swings. I would recommend a lighter bat so when he does swing maybe the bat gets through the zone that fraction of a second faster that he's losing on his swing decisions.

If Hawk announcing he would've said about Vargas routine flyout to left field, " He just missed it", and actually he did. He was all over the pitch but the difference between a good hitter and a bad hitter is that good hitters get hits on mistake pitches a lot more often. He one of those guys where his process is pretty good but the results between his brain and swing don't add up to quality squaring up or barreling the ball. It's like he's always either late or the swing is just .50 inch off from where it should be to get some good exit velo. It's like a good combination of eyesight with pitch recognition. Some hitter try to pick up the way its coming out of a pitchers hand since each has a different grip . That's why pitchers hide the ball as long as they can so the hitter might focus on the release point. But you only have a fraction of a second to recognize things and react or not react. There's very few hitters that just react as they see the ball. A lot of times you really have to guess whats coming and think like a pitcher depending on count, with your swing tendencies vs his pitch sequencing and whats working for him that day which can change inning by inning. It's easy to understand why some hitters just swing out of the zone so much. It looks like its coming right down the middle 1/4 or more of the way towards the plate then the sucker breaks down or down and away from you or in on you and at various speeds. To square it up you have to pinpoint speed, pitch type and location and swing and hit the ball not too soon and not too late but just right and there's still a bunch of fielders out there to take hits away from you even if you do all that stuff right.

There was one place for the hitter to truly shorten up and that was with Palacios up with men on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. Just had a stolen base of 2nd to stay out of the DP. Contact likely ties the game. He K'd instead. Any chance the WSox had of winning vanished unless the guy behind him got a hit and Vargas did not after battling for 10 pitches.

Getz isn't the manager and so what if he did no hit the Sox. They're a bad hitting team .A loss is a loss .

They're mad he broke up the no no.

Lol it's ok. I assume you're a Sox fan since you've been here a long time. You can root for your bad team to win in a tight game. I do it every game. I don't think it hurts when they are likely to have 2 losses for every win anyway.

It would be sweet . Smith pitched great. Ran out of steam in the 6th. Certainly not expecting it.

Mistakes are made every day in every game. Bad hops are called errors, pitches groove pitches all the time, winds push slicing balls even farther away from OFs. Jones hasn't played 1 inning in this park. He might have not caught it either. Plus you're running out of space at the wall. Meidroth breaks it up !

I'm just saying it doesn't really matter. If you're so concerned about winning in a rebuild over getting Baldwin more experience as a multipostional utility guy it's micro not macro thinking. He just had a game winning hit yesterday and a great catch coming in on a ball. Playing RF on a windy day on a ball hit bry a RH hitter slicing away from him is going to be trouble even for experienced OFs . It's not exacting like Palacios has played a lot of RF with the e the Sox in Chicago .1 game if I'm not mistaken. Benintendi, Slater, Tauchman all hurt right ? It just sounds like complaining for no reason expecting perfection for the defense wanting to give up zero runs so they have a shot at winning when this game was always going to be hard towin with this weak hitting team against Crochet.

Who should be ?

Weak bat, weak fielder, weak runner. What he makes this year will be his highest salary ever. Hell get red hot for a a few weeks eventually but he can't figure out how to do it for longer. He's minor league fodder next year. Send him down. He's getting a free pass playing so much while producing so bad.

4-10 is way better. At this rate we'll be 8-20

Meidroth IRA ?

Home cookin' . A very nice game.

Sure he probably had 1st hand knowledge but Sox prepare for the Rule 5 which means everyone involved in decision making on players reads various reports and gets scouting info . McKinven's expertise is not pitching. Because someone supposedly made a bad decision on choosing between 2 players doesn't automatically means he's a bad executive and every time he speaks he's to be scorned. Do we really need so little info to base our opinions ? It's meatball fandom and convincing yourselves you have great insight when it's really just overreaction based on knowing very little about ,well, everything .

Where's your X to post all this juicy insider info you have ? SMH

You're a breathe of fresh air.

Dude it might be normal to not play a guy who played today already. He could've got there an hour before game time and not had enough time to go through his pregame routine. I don't know why you're so all fired up to put blame somewhere in every single situation. I'm just being fair . If they played a player short so be it. It happens and sometimes is unavoidable. Don't you ever just say things are never as we wish they were nor do they appear as we think we see it ?

That's what I was asking to. Wegner said he was there because Kasper said so but that doesn't necessarily mean they decided he was available and if he did play earlier today it's likely they decided not to use him today .

Maybe Connor McKnight or Garfien ?